Publication of short story collection Switch Bitch

1974

1974

In 1974 Roald Dahl's fourth adult short story collection Switch Bitch, which introduces the character of Uncle Oswald, is published by Alfred A. Knopf.

Uncle Oswald - or Oswald Hendryks Cornelius to give him his full name - is one of Roald's best-known adult characters. He is a hedonistic man, whose scandalous exploits Roald went on to write about in more detail in his last full-length comic novel for adults, called simply My Uncle Oswald.